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I have very rare episodes that manifest just like the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Your senses don't change, but you perceive things louder, quieter, bigger or smaller. It's a very hard thing to explain, but I'll try to share my own experience.
One night, at age 5-7, I had a bad fever that made me wake up at night. I remember having a nightmare. But, even after being awake, things weren't feeling right. I had a feeling of danger. But, at the same time, I knew nothing was gonna happen. As I was trying to fall asleep, I could see myself, in third person, getting farther and farther away, smaller and smaller. But never too small. Then, I would snap out of it, and see that everything is ok. Then again, trying to let my mind rest, this feeling of getting smaller was reappearing. It was like I was at a very high place, looking down at myself in the bed.
Throughout the years, I had multiple episodes like this. Some in my bed, some while I was completely awake throughout the day. Sometimes, they were happening daily, sometimes a year would pass without having one. However, up to this day, I have some kind of AiW episode, at least once a year.
This is how it manifested throughout the day: randomly, I would start perceiving sounds louder, and voices speaking faster. At the same time, I was completely aware that this was not real. It wasn't feeling like a panic attack nor like a paranoia attack. It was more like: dissociation. I was holding normal conversations, being able to focus, just as usual. Sometimes, things appeared farther away than they actually were. But, for this to happen, I had to stare to a fixed point, at an object. After a while, the object was starting to appear farther away. An episode wouldn't last more than 5-10 minutes.
Another interesting perception is when I'm about to sleep. With my eyes closed, I was starting to "see" the surrounding void. I could feel the emptiness in front of my eyes. It was like what had been 2D until then, now was 3D. But I still knew that what I was seeing was just black.
Sometimes I can trigger an episode. Nowadays, I observed that it can happen when I'm very tired. What I have to think about is: something big that's shrunk enough to stay on the top of a needle. If this sounds very strange to you, try thinking about the scratching of a blackboard or the surface of sand paper, making your skin chicken up. Just with the power of thinking, you evoked a physical reaction.
Did you have any weird experiences like this?
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